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Thursday, 25 April 2013

Spring's Blessings

Spring's Blessings Part-II......

The spring has
blessed my garden with lots of flowers, which, during the winters were dormant.
As I already described, many of my plants bloomed during this time, posting all
the pics in the previous post would have made the post rather too long for anyone's
liking. Hence, I decided to post the pics in separate posts. So, here we go
with some more pics to enjoy the beauty of nature.

Some Ghazania flowers, which, I planted this winter, for the first time.

Some Ghazania flowers, which, I planted this winter, for the first time.

Some Ghazania flowers, which, I planted this winter, for the first time.

A Ghazania flower, which, I planted this winter, for the first time.

Some Ghazania flowers, which, I planted this winter, for the first time.

Since, I love photography, many of my
posts, like this one, have photographs of same flowers or plants, taken from
different angles. Would you believe that all these flowers are from the same
plant? As the flower gets older, its colour gets lighter, so, the darkest one,
is the newest bloom, while the lightest one is the oldest.

Last november, I got a packet of
Ghazania (Ghazania Rigens aka Ghazania Splendens) seeds, in all, the packet had
only ten seeds, out of which, only six germinated and out of those six, four of
the plants are in the same pot. And till now, I have got blooms of different
colours from these four plants - dark red (this one), pink, yellow and white.
I'm waiting for the other two to bloom.

There are some more, including my
regulars roses (red and orange), and my rangoon creeper vine, which has started
blooming lately, which, I'll be posting in the next post, soon. Till then,
enjoy, and happy gardening.